u/Jyonnyp

I'm doing it because my physical therapist is recommending it for me because my thoughts manifest in physical tension.

I think it will be good for me because my anxiety does stem from irrational thoughts, negative thinking, worst case scenario preparation, etc. This takes many forms:

• Health anxiety: when I start to feel weird, I overthink and overfeel it. It disregulates my nervous system greatly and I've been suffering from chronic pain and tension because of it.

• Social anxiety: I generally am very negative so I always assume and default to worst case scenarios unless otherwise given concrete evidence. That the person I'm interacting with doesn't like me, and I need to convince them that I'm someone worth liking. Or that they think I'm annoying, etc. This doesn't stem as much from low self esteem as it does from negative thinking. For example, I don't like receiving attention, because in the worst case, it's negative attention.

• Work: Some of my work is pretty important so a healthy amount of paranoia is good, but I tend to become pretty fucking paranoid which ruins my trust in my own work and others' trust in my work as well.

I hear that since I'm quite a logical person all things considered and I just need to reframe my thinking, CBT is good for me. What are your experiences and timelines with it?

Note, I'm not medicated.

Mostly regarding anxiety: social and health anxiety. In-person preferable. CBT probably, never done therapy before but my Physical therapist recommends CBT for patients with health anxiety like me.

Looking through different options on PsychologyToday.com and there are like hundreds that fit my criteria, which admittedly is quite broad. Not sure how to narrow it down because every bio is a similar type of generic thing, and as I've learned with shopping around for physical therapy, people can just broadly cover different bases as they advertise their medical services, despite not being super knowledgeable in all that they say they can help with.

Also I wish they'd let you search keyterms on the site instead of broad filters...

If you have recommendations: Preferring someone near Midtown, LIC, or Astoria.

Been having this for about a week now, for most of the day (sometimes it goes away in the afternoon/evening). Feels like I'm constantly being strangled, which also constantly triggers my extremely bad gag reflex which I've always had

I don't have heartburn, or a sore throat, and it doesn't seem to impact my swallowing much if at all, and certainly doesn't impact my breathing. My diet has been fairly consistent week-to-week for the last few years probably. Voice is fine too. Never had a GERD diagnosis or any thought that I'd have it. No sourness or burning feeling anywhere.

The only other thing that it could be is perhaps my muscles in my anterior neck are just very tight, which could be the case as I've been having neck issues for months, so I've been going to physical therapy for it, some of the exercises specifically targeting the muscles in the front of the neck. I don't have my next appointment until next week.

The most relief I have is popping a cough drop which is my go-to- method for handling my gag reflex. But I'm basically popping one every hour at this point.

I feel it the best after lying down for a long period of time, like in the morning...so it could be the neck muscles issue. But I don't want to just next my PT my throat feels tight is this because of the exercises, because that sounds silly and I've been doing them for weeks already with no issue. So I want to check here before asking my PT and then booking ENT if necessary.